cirque

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The show is distinctive from other "cirque" - style entertainment in that the dancers, jugglers, acrobats and contortionists, share the stage with a live orchestra.

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  1. noun A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream. Also called cwm.
  2. noun A ring; a circle.

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  • In the fields on the other bank of the river, on the road to Villeneuve, the cirque was already established. —  Flowers for the Judge - Margery Allingham - Campion 07 - 1937
  • There lay a classic cirque, a chunk of the mountain gouged out by glacial movement leaving a steep amphitheater two or three hundred yards across and half again that long. —  Blood Lure
  • A quarter of the cirque was still covered in snow. —  Blood Lure
  • The rest of the cirque was floored in grayish-green alpine talus, flat loose stones ranging in size from teacups to tabletops. —  Blood Lure
  • An area as apparently free of secrets as the cirque could easily have hollows beneath stones. —  Blood Lure
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  1. French, from Latin circus, circle; see circle.

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  1. Early modern English also cirke; from French cirque, from Latin circus: see circus, and cf. circ.
 

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